Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 Backwards Compatibility

2008-09-11 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Lester, Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7:43:25 PM, you wrote: > Marcus Boerger wrote: >> Hello Lester, >>> Another major concern here since maintaining BC with *PHP4* is still an >>> unfortunate current requirement in the field is what happens when PEAR >>> actually uses namespace and oth

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 Backwards Compatibility

2008-09-10 Thread Lester Caine
Marcus Boerger wrote: Hello Lester, Another major concern here since maintaining BC with *PHP4* is still an unfortunate current requirement in the field is what happens when PEAR actually uses namespace and other 5.3 only features. HOW will we manage accessing versions of PEAR that are compati

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 Backwards Compatibility

2008-09-10 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Lester, Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 6:05:38 AM, you wrote: > While I have loaded 5.3.? changing any of my existing code base to remove > warnings is not likely to happen any time soon since compatibility with users > who are still running older versions of PHP still needs to be maintained.